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[–] gradual@lemmings.world -3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (11 children)

A new law could soon allow AI companies to use copyrighted material without permission.

Good. Copyright and patent laws need to die.

All the money wasted enforcing them and taken from customers could be better spent on other things.

Creators will still create, as they always have. We just won't have millionaire scumbags such as 'paul mccartney' living like kings while children starve.

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[–] arararagi@ani.social 46 points 1 day ago (11 children)

If AI companies can pirate, so can individuals.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know I am somewhat of a large language model myself.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

At this rate we will get access to more rights if we can figure out a way to legally classify ourselves as AI.

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[–] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 76 points 1 day ago (4 children)

hello yes I'm an ai company. let me torrent all the things pls thank you

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's exactly what Meta did, they torrented the full libgen database of books.

If they can do it, anybody should be able to do it.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I like how their whole excuse to that was "WE DIDN'T SEED ANY OF IT BACK THOUGH" which arguably makes it even worse lol.

[–] Plasticity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Zuck would be a hit and runner....

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  1. There’s a practical concern: how do you prevent ai without preventing people.
  2. What if you want to allow search, and how is that different than ai, legally or in practice?
  3. Does this put Reddit in a new light? Free content to users but charging for the api to do bulk download such as for ai?
[–] bufalo1973@lemm.ee 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Search is very different to create something.

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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

should start up our own ai company anyone is free to join

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I identify as an AI company ☠️

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

no no, i mean people should actually start utilizing this bullshit. Anyone can start a company and with some technical knowhow you can add somekind of ai crap to it. companies dont have to make profit or anything useful so there is no pressure to do anything with it.

But if it comes to copyright law not applying to ai companies, why should some rich assholes be only ones exploiting that? It might lead to some additional legal bullshit that excludes this hypotetical kind of ai company, but that would also highlight better that the law benefits only the rich.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] K3zi4@lemmy.world 182 points 2 days ago (51 children)

In theory, could you then just register as an AI company and pirate anything?

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[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 80 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm naming my torrent client "AI" and now I have the right to download a car.

[–] the_q@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean they were trained on copyrighted material and nothing has been done about that so...

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 44 points 1 day ago (24 children)

So abolish copyright law entirely instead of only allowing theft when capitalists do it.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh good I see Labour are dealing with the real issues in society.

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